Making Honey For The New Year

An Aussie immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave is founder and managing editor of Israellycool, one of the world's most popular pro-Israel blogs (and the one you are currently reading)
He is a happy family man, and a lover of steak, Australian sports and girlie drinks

I came to the hospital with a chip on my shoulder today. Sad, scared and anxious.

I secured the loneliest bed in the corner of the most distant room because I didn’t want to make small talk and I wanted my space. We turned off the lights and enjoyed the silence.

Moments after settling down in my peaceful corner, a very loud crowd joined me in “my” private room. A bald and strained woman took a bed, subsequently, her family went about turning on all the lights, speaking loudly on their cellphones and taking every spare chair on the ward. I asked gently for them to please make less noise. The lady reacted very angrily to me. She started yelling that that she doesn’t feel well and that I’m an “elite Ashkenazi with protektzia” and she’s going to write a formal letter of complaint about me….

Verging on tears, I got up from my bed, came over to the lady and smiled at her and said, “I’m sorry if I hurt your feelings. You’re my sister and I’m yours. I hope you get well soon” and I grabbed her hand and squeezed it. She squealed, “Aiy! Your hands are so cold! Just like mine!” I told her that we both are having chemo and we’re both feeling the same things.” she immediately started blessing me and wishing me well! I felt so relieved that the energy in the room immediately changed to peaceful!

By the way, if you are not already reading her blog, you are really missing out.

"Israellycool is one of a few excellent blogs digging into stories, giving context to the news as reported and shining a light on slanted and biased journalistic agendas" - Michael Dickson, StandWithUs

"..the notorious Israellycool.com, which gently skips between right-wing rants against Islam, posts about science fiction and - what else? - blogs about the Eurovision song contest." - Tim Jonze, The Guardian

"Posting from Israelly cool is like posting from Der Sturmer. "Probably the most infamous was ‘Der Stűrmer’ by the anti-Semite Julius Streicher who claimed that ‘Der Stűrmer’ was Hitler’s favourite read. However, Goebbels viewed the newspaper as little more than a ‘daily rag’ and believed that it was more likely to harm the regime than present it in its best light such was the paucity of its contents that occasionally bordered on the pornographic." Good old Aussie dan fits the definition perfectly" - Greta Berlin